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Zazen Sacred Icons :: Tibetan and Nepalese Gifts :: Tibetan Prayer Flags

Tibetan Prayer Flags

Tibetan Buddhist Prayer Flags (Lung Ta - lit. wind horse) Tibetan Buddhists offer up prayers into the unseen spiritual world with woodblock-printed flimsy - loosely woven flags called lung ta. Each flag carries prayers and invocations to deities - illustrations of auspicious animals: the windhorse - garuda bird - dragon - snow lion and tiger: and colours embodying the five basic elements: air - water - fire - earth and ether - or mind. They are imbued as well with the prayerful mental offerings of the people who make and use them. With each flutter in the wind - visible and invisible prayers are thus multiplied and sent off into the void for the benefit of those who made them - and other beings - as well. Lung Ta are strung up high on hills - from house top or tree to adjacent tree - and on vertical tree-branch poles marking the four cardinal directions at each corner of the roof of a house. They remain fluttering in the gales and bleaching in the rain and intense sunlight until they decompose away - in the process intimately melding their requests with the universal energy source beyond.Extracted (with kind permission from the publishers) from the highly recommended book Tibetan Reflections - by Peter Gold (published by Wisdom Publications London)

25 flags attached by string. Flags 20 cm x 20 cm each.

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CODE	FH01
Quantity in stock	285 item(s) available
Weight	0.11 kg
Price:	£6.95 including VAT of £1.16

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